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The Apple Watch is triggering an obscure phobia

Apologies in advance if this triggers it for you.

 

Jam Kotenko

Tech

Posted on Mar 11, 2015   Updated on May 29, 2021, 8:15 am CDT

We have finally met the Apple Watch. In case you’ve been living under a rock, it looks like this.

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The device comes with a long-lasting battery and a myriad of exciting new features. There are also various styles to choose from, including lavish ones priced at $10,000 and up.

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Apple diehards all over the world are chomping at the bit to pre-order this thing beginning April 10. 

Meanwhile, this is all I can think about:

In case you didn’t know, trypophobia is the uncontrollable and completely irrational fear of objects that have an irregular pattern of holes. Those who claim to have the fear shudder over images of beehives, lotus seed heads, loofahs, coral, and the like.

Eventually it escalates, and trypophobics start seeing things like this.While trypophobia may not be a legitimate condition recognized by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, that doesn’t mean people aren’t taking to Twitter to complain about the skin-crawling feeling the Apple Watch display is giving them.

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https://twitter.com/andyjgibbs/status/575381469956169728

https://twitter.com/shjamieson/status/574980482988965888

Thanks, Apple.

Photo via Karunakar Rayker/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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*First Published: Mar 11, 2015, 1:30 pm CDT